TRANSLATION:
- This week I've discovered the blog
HegelInCanada written by Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri
from Canada, the freelancer who translates from English and Italian into
Norwegian (a dream language combination for me-). I especially like her latest
blogpost „Living with untranslatables“ since –
being a translator myself – I have always been intrigued by the English
words that don't have real equivalents in Czech (or vice versa). Some of them
are just one-word terms (bread x chleba), some diminutives, slang expressions, idioms or
phrases (recently I've racked my brains with the phrase „to take the bull
by horns“ x „postavit se k věci čelem“ = literally „to
face something“ – see? The bull has just disappeared in Czech). Do you have
a favourite or hated „untranslatable“?
- When I started collecting typo errors in
shop signs, restaurant menus or books some time ago, it didn't occur to me how
common this hobby is – Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson have even published a
book about it. You can listen to the radio programme about their „typo hunt“ at the NPR website. I hope the book
also covers the „shcool“ road sign in North Carolina.
- If you liked the movie Lost in Translation you probably
wondered what the dialog from the Suntory Time whiskey commercial scene was all
about. Now you can read it in
English. (via @angeldominguez)
INSPIRATION:
- A nice read about out first loves, I mean books was
published in the online magazine The Millions.
- Did you know that nails have their life,
too? I didn't until I saw Vlad Artazov's photographs. (via @grasevina)
CZECH / a něco česky:
- Na téma nepřeložitelných idiomů
se v Lidovkách rozepsal i překladatel Robert Novotný a nad angličákováním češtiny si v Literárkách
povzdychl Jan Plachetka (jemuž při anglickém hláskování jadrného
českého slova- jak bylo správně poznamenáno – vtipně vypadlo jedno
písmeno).
Finally, have a look at this amazing short movie (thanks, @lacertacz) about
associations which is a kind of teaser for the very interesting Words episode of Radiolab (WNYC Radio).
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Have a great weekend!
